Railway car



Dec. 11 1923. 1,476,960

T. ELLIOTT RAILWAY CAR Filed April 17. 1922 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 gnu@ what, Mmmm/(5M,

Patented Dec.. ll, 1923.

THOMAS ELLIOTT, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO,

nire stares assreitor. fro *ren crucinnarrcnn coivr- PANY, OF WINTON PLACE, OHIO, A COBJOBJATION OF yOHIO.

RAILW'AY CAR.

Application filed April 17, 1922-.

To all Iwhom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Trioiims ELLIOTT, a citizen et the United States, residing at incinnati, in the county ot Hamilton and ttate ot Ohio, have invented certain lnew and usetul improvements in Railway-Cars, ot which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to railway cars, particularly the kind used on city and interurban railways.

The major teatures oit my invention are (a) .li step set back or inward so that it shall not project beyond the outer margins ot the adjacent parts ot the car structure, whereby a stationary and at the saine time a protected step provided and whereby also the usual operating mechanism for actuating the folding steps is eliminated with the advantage ot reducing cost and weight, and the labor ot the motorman in raising a nd lowering folding steps;

(7)) fr sliding door located when closed over said step and having a gua-rd which closes any gap between the door and the platform or iioor where it is cut away7 to expose the step.

Certain structural*features also enter into my invention.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a conventional railway car with my improved step and door arrangement applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 2 2 ot Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view ot the tloor and an elevation of one side of the car, the view being taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction of the arrow;

Fig. e is an enlarged transverse sectional view on the line 1 4 ot Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective view, partly in section, showing the arrangement oit the door, the 'Hoor and the partition, 'the door in this view being in the pocket;

F ig. 6 is a plan view showing the relation oit the floor 'to the side sill with a slot intervening.

In Fig. 1 l. have illustrated a portion of one side of a railway car ot any conventional type. To such a car I apply the features of my invention. I prefer a car having a ramped floor, as best seen in Fig. 3, in which the numeral 1 designates the platform,

Serial No. 553,654.

the numeral 2 the ramped portion ot the door and the horizontal portion.

It will be seen trom Fig. 2 that the platform is cut away at t at a point suticiently remote from the exterior outer margins l5 and G of ythe car structure to accommodate the width ot a lined step 7 and from Fig. 6 that between the floor and the inner edge ot the side sill a space la is provided. This space or slot accommodates the doo-r guard when the door is within the pocket, as will be explained later. lThe step 7 may be sustained in any convenient manner,`but pre-ferably by means ot a knee or step plate 8 secured to the side sill 9 ot the car structure, as by bolts 10, and to a platform sill 11 by rivets 12. The bottom plate 13 is secured to the knee or step plate and the step proper is held upon and within this bottom plate.

It will now be seen, assuming that the door is removed trom over the step, that passengers may enter or leave the car by treading on the step and thence to the platform 1 or from the platform down to the step and that while on the step they are essentially within the outer lines ot the car.

Extending above the side sill 9 is corner post 14 and a suitable distance toward the center ot the car is U-post 15. See Fig. 2. The post 14 is bent inward, as seen .at 16, in Fig. 4t, so as to rest upon the floor over the sill 11 where the post is secured, as by bolts or rivets 17. Secured to the two posts le and 15 is a partition 18 which forms a wall between which and the vouter wall or side plate 19 ot the car body is formed a pocket 2O for the reception ot the door, as will presently appear. To .the lower margin ot the partition 18 is secured a shield 21 whose function is to close the gap between the floor 2 and the partition, as best seen in Fig. Thus the inside width ot the car is made greater' by positioning the partition 18 in the manner shown, while at the same time the shield prevents the possibility of passengers stepping into what would otherwise be an open space between the partition and the floor.

Referring now to the door designated 22, it will be seen that tor its supporting rollers 23 there is provided a track 24 in the nature ot lJ-shaped beam standing edgewise, as best illustrated in Fig. e. This track beam is conveniently supported, in any desired manner, by connection with the upper part of the car structure. The door, when closed as in Fig. 2, occupies a position over the step at a point which will position it so that it will Vconveniently travel back into the pocket 2t) by rolling the rollers on the Vtrack beam 2li. This position leaves between the door, when over the step, and the margin of the platform an open space which, if not closed, would endanger the safety of passengers who might step into the space and be inconvenienced or injured.V To prevent this condition the door is equipped with a guard 25 in the nature of a strip or" sheet metal secured to the lower margin of the door, as indicated at 2G, more particularly in Figs. 4 and 5. It will thus be seen that when the door is over the step this gap or space is properly closed and yet that when the door is slid back into the pocket the guard will iind ready entrance in the space or slot ta and travel under the partition and the supporting post lil, as also clearly shown in Fig. 4.

I have not illustrated any mechanism :tor operating the door as any of the conventional mechanisms for that purpose may be employed or the door may be slid back and forth by hand.

It will now be seen that I have provided a stationary step located within the outer margins of the car structure and combined therewith a sliding door equipped with means to prevent passengers from getting their feet between the door and the platform, and also a pocket for the door with a partition so located as not to hamper the space within the car and yet so equipped with a shield device as to prevent passengers from likewise getting their feet into the space between the partition and the margin of the car floor.

"Thus, I have combined the advantages ot a stationary step and a sliding door with practical safety provisions in the nature oC shields and guards.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

v l. In a car, the combination with the floor,

of a partition located outward beyond the iioor and having its bottom edge above said Hoor and a shield secured to the partition and to the tioor and forming a closure of the space between the floor and partition, said shield extending inwardly from the bottom edge of the partition and then downwardly to the outer edge oi the floor.

2. In a car, the combination with the tloor, a shield extending upward from and laterally beyond the iloor and a partition located at the outer termination ot the shield.

3. In a car, the combination with a step positioned essentially within the outer mar gins of the car structure and a pocket located in line with the step. ol a partition located outward oi the iioor and having its bottom edge above said floor, a shield extendingr inwardly and then downwardly from the partition to the floor and a door having a guard extending inwardly and then downwardly beneath and outside of said shield and essentially from the door to the floor, snel: shield and guard closing spaces respectively lietween the partition and the door and the floor, said door being adapted to enter said pocket with its guard.

4. In a car, the combination with the floor, a stationary step below the floor and essentially within the outer margins ol the ear structure, a sliding door having its bottom edge above said Hoor and a guard secured thereto and extending first inwardly and then downwardly therefrom and ada ptxd to till the space between the door and the lloor when the door is closed, of a partition located soinewhat above the step and forming a pocket between it and the outer wall ot the car, said partition having its bottom edge located above the inwardly extending por tion of said shield, and a shield extendingv in parallelism to the rst mentioned shield and connected to the floor and the partition and closing the gap between them.

In testimony whereof, I atlix my signal nre.

THOMAS ELLIOT'l.

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